[54] Design for grate and fender

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Sir John Soane office drawings: the drawings of Sir John Soane and the office of Sir John Soane
- Country houses, etc.
  - Stowe, Buckinghamshire: design for library for 1st Marquis of Buckingham, 1805-6 and later unexecuted designs (80)
    - Library
      - Chimneypiece

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Reference number

SM 33/3/B56

Purpose

[54] Design for grate and fender

Aspect

Elevation of Design for the Grate and Fender with feint pencil detail of quatrefoil ornament

Scale

to a scale of 2 inches to 1 foot

Inscribed

as above, The Marquis of Buckingham, for Gothic Library at Stowe

Signed and dated

19/02/1807
Lincolns Inn Fields / Feb^y 19 1807

Medium and dimensions

Pen, green, sepia and yellow washes, with multi ruled and sepia wash border on laid paper (455 x 653)

Hand

Soane office
There is no record in the Soane office Day Book (for 19 February 1807) of any one working on Stowe (or grates and fenders).

Watermark

Edwards & Pine, fleur-de-lis within crowned cartouche and below, 1801

Notes

Usefully shows the executed design for the chimneypiece.

Level

Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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